Tatiana Kosintseva top seeded at the Zhonghai Huashan Women’s Tournament

Eight strong female players are taking part in the single round robin tournament. The time control will be 25 minutes for the whole game with 10 seconds increments per move from move 1.

Russian GM Tatiana Kosintseva is the first seed. She reappears at the women’s world chess after refusing to play for her National team due to conflict with the coach Sergei Rublevsky. Tatiana and her sister Nadezhda Kosintseva – who led the Russian team to a first place in the last Olympiad – claimed ‘psychological incompatibility’ with Rublevsky.